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Name the Moons of Pluto
Mark Showalter (SETI Institute), Franck Marchis (SETI Institute), Hal Weaver (Johns Hopkins University), Alan Boyle (NBC News) and Nadia Drake (Wired.com) discuss naming Pluto's moons, P4 & P5 (video)
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Surface exploration of small solar system bodies: challenges and prospects
In this talk, Dr. Pavone will discuss past attempts together with recent advancements in the field of microgravity planetary rovers, including wheeled rovers, legged rovers, tethered robots, and hoppers.
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Astronomers Ask Public to Help Name Pluto's New Moons
The discoverers of Pluto's two tiniest moons are inviting the public to help select names for the new moons. By tradition, the moons of Pluto have names associated with Hades and the underworld. Beginning today, people can vote by visiting: http://plutorocks.seti.org
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Big PIcture Science Radio Show - Say La Vie
Researchers discover life in a subglacial Antarctic lake. James Cameron takes the first solo dive to the deepest, darkest part of the ocean.
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Join SETIStars Today!
We’re grateful to have you by our side as we explore the vast cosmic ocean, asking questions, making discoveries, learning more about our universe and ourselves.
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Robots, Embodiment, and Mediated Virtuality
Robots and other embodied systems can be seen as mediators between the real and the virtual, influencing our expectations of the possibilities and limitations of virtual worlds. (Google+ Hangout Video)
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Brown Dwarfs, Planetary Mass Objects, and their Disks in the Nearest Star-Forming Regions
We have recently discovered large populations of free-floating Planetary Mass Objects and brown dwarfs in the nearest star-forming regions to Earth. Do such objects outnumber the stars in the Galaxy? Do they have their own planetary or moon systems?
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Herschel Finds Old Star Possibly Making Planets
A star thought to have passed the age when it can form planets may in fact be creating new worlds. The disk of material surrounding the surprising star called TW Hydrae may be massive enough to make even more planets than we have in our own solar system.
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A Cook's Tour of the CheMin XRD/XRF instrument and an insider's view of the MSL Curiosity mission on Mars
Dr. David Blake of the NASA research Center is the chief designer and Principle Investigator of the CHEMIN instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory Rover 'Curiosity', which is now investigating evidence of liquid-borne sediments at Gale Crater on Mars. He will give an insider's view into the mission and update us on the latest results from the MSL mission.
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What can black hole dynamics tell us about Quantum Gravity?
Black hole thermodynamics hints at intriguing features of quantum gravity, such as "holography," the possibility that the fundamental physical properties of a finite region might be entirely described by quantum states at its boundary.
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